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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 2</span><span class="fp-text">LA BELETTE ET LES RATS</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula II</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="POETA  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">MUSTELA ET MURES</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="MUSTELA ET MURES  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-difference">POETA</span></span></span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ceci te paraît peu sérieux, et à la vérité, ma plume s'égaye</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">lorsque je n'ai rien de mieux à faire ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais lis ces bagatelles avec attention,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et tu verras combien d'utiles leçons elles renferment.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les choses ne sont pas toujours telles qu'elles paraissent.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le premier aspect trompe bien des gens, mais un esprit éclairé soulève</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le voile et découvre la pensée de l'auteur.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je ne parle pas sans preuve, et je citerai à l'appui</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">la fable de la Belette et des Rats.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Joculare tibi videtur, et sane leve,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dum nihil habemus <span class="fp-correction" title="manu  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">majus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="majus  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">manu</span></span> calamo ludimus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed diligenter intuere has nenias ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quantam <span class="fp-correction" title="subtilis  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">sub illis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="sub illis  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">subtilis</span></span> utilitatem repperies&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Non semper ea sunt quae videntur <span class="fp-correction" title="despici  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">decipit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="decipit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">despici</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">frons prima multos ; rara mens intellegit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod <span class="fp-correction" title="inferiore  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">interiore</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="interiore  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">inferiore</span></span> condidit cura angulo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc ne locutus sine mercede existimer,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fabellam adiciam de mustela et muribus.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une vieille Belette, affaiblie par les années,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne pouvait plus atteindre les Rats dans leur fuite rapide.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Elle se couvre de farine et se jette négligemment dans un coin obscur ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">un Rat, flairant un bon morceau,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">saute dessus ; mais aussitôt il est pris et tué ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">un second de même, puis un troisième, puis quelques autres encore.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Enfin, vint un vieux routier</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui souvent avait évité pièges et ratières ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">du plus loin qu'il aperçut la ruse de la fine Belette, il lui dit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Porte-toi aussi bien qu'il est vrai que tu es farine.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Mustela cum annis <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n111/mode/1up">p.48</a>]</span> et senecta debilis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">mures veloces non valeret adsequi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">involvit se farina et <span class="fp-correction" title="obcuro  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">obscuro</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="obscuro  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">obcuro</span></span> loco</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">abjecit neclegenter. Mus escam putans</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">adsiluit et compressus occubuit neci.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Alter similiter, deinde perit et tertius.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aliquod venit saeculis rete territus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui saepe laqueos et muscipula effugerat ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">proculque insidias cernens hostis callidi&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Sic valeas, inquit, ut farina es quae jaces.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/lane-et-les-pretres-de-cybele.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
<td class="fp-right"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-renard-et-le-raisin.html">Fable suivante</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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